After installing my new blog, I started working on converting my whole site over to PHP. Halfway through that process, I decided to go with Object Oriented Programming. Simply put, OOP helps separate different aspects of code into manageable chunks, called objects (or classes). I just want to say that nobody - and I mean nobody - should make such massive change in the middle of a project. I had pretty much converted my entire “Family & Friends” photo gallery over to PHP when I decided to do this. So now I get to rewrite it again.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
New Blog Software
Well, I have finished installing a new blog software to my site. Unfortunately, the one I was writing just kept turning into more and more work. I went with an open-source PHP solution called Serendipity. So far I am quite happy with the results. It was fairly simple to integrate with my layout and offers more features than I will probably ever need from my blog. So yeah, good stuff.
The Night the Buzz Stole Xmas
Last night I went to a great concert at the Uptown Theatre in KC. Nick got tickets for the concert and gave one to me as a Christmas present. The concert was fantastic! Coheed and Cambria was a really good band, and the headliners, Jimmy Eat World, were even better than I hoped.
Stupid ice storm
As I was driving into work this morning, the cheerful voices on the radio announced the school closings and other such news. It seems that while nearly every school in Kansas, western Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa is closed, KU will stolidly remain open. Thanks for that.
Another weekend flown by
It’s crazy. The past five or six weeks have just been whizzing by. I suppose that’s a good thing when you are talking about work, but I definitely don’t like not being able to figure out what happened to my weekends. Last night at swing, I ran into quite a few people that I haven’t seen in years. One ex-girlfriend, one guy who moved to Denver a couple years ago, and a husband/wife combo that I really miss talking to. As a whole, the evening was a lot less awkward than it could have been, but it certainly showed me how much I have grown and learned the past few years.